The study found a strong trade network between Greenland Norse and French abbeys, linking Cistercians to broader economies, ...

For centuries, pagan tribes in Europe's Baltic region used sacrificial horses in funeral rituals. Researchers have long ...

In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made ...

A routine fire patrol, operating some 200 miles northwest of the country's capital, Astana, discovered a nearly foot-long face carving in a granite boulder. Although experts have analyzed the carving, ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

Nestled in the heart of the ancient medieval kingdom of Arwystli, Llanidloes is the first town on the River Severn and serves ...

Dozens of unique, centuries-old manuscripts have gone on display, showcasing medieval ideas of how to cure disease and live a ...

Explore the Wonders of the Pre-Modern World! This interdisciplinary minor is focused on material, intellectual, sociopolitical, literary, and linguistic approaches to the Ancient, Medieval, and ...

Testimony in one 15 th -century manuscript records how a friar at Stamford was cured of his nosebleeds by dipping his testicles into cold water and vinegar. Another records the apparently successful ...

Restoration work on the Rusovce Mansion in the capital of Slovakia has unearthed remnants of the first known Roman aqueduct ...

The walls are assessed as one of the most important surviving medieval city walls in Britain. They were built in the 13th ...